Photos: Views of China

Visitors pose for pictures in the financial district of Shanghai, China.

Peter Parks
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A new suspension bridge os being built over the Yangtze River in China's southwest metropolis of Chongqing.Peter Parks
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Local residents cooling down by swimming in a natural cold spring beside the city moat and the historic Jiefangge Watchtower in the city of Jinan, Shandong Province.Mark Ralston
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A woman offers prayers to her deceased relatives, burning joss sticks on the Ghost Festival at Longhua Temple in Shanghai, China, Ghost Festival is held to worship ancestors in China.Eugene Hoshiko
/ The Associated Press

A group of Chinese workers have lunch by a road in Beijing.Wang Zhao
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A performer poses with a 'lion' head prior to a show at a temple fair at Longtan park in Beijing, China.Ed Jones
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A man kicks a shuttlecock with a girl along a road in Beijing, China.WANG ZHAO
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Family members wait as the last of the fishing boats arrive back with their catch, in Qionghai, south China's Hainan province,
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A woman sells oranges from the side of a road in Beijing, China.
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A Chinese fisherman places fish for drying up along at the harbour in Haikou, south China's Hainan province. As China's rapid urbanization expands, these fishing villages for Chinese Dun minority people are fast dissappearing.Stringer
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A woman (R) wearing a face mask rides her bicycle along a road in Beijing, China.Wang Zhao
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A man looks on as he pushes his bike on the Marco Polo bridge, or Lugouqiao in west Beijing. The bridge was the scene of the 'Manchurian Incident', an event involving an explosion engineered by Japanese military personnel and blamed on Chinese dissidents, as a pretext for invading the northern part of China in 1931.Zhao Wang
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Chinese tourists visit Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, China prior to the grand celebrations to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.Feng Li
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A tourist films with his camcorder as he walks down the long corridor, known as the "Chang Lang", which is adorned with thousands of paintings depicting landscapes, birds and flowers from Chinese literary classics at the Summer Palace in Beijing. The palace, which was the retreat once used by China's Qing Dynasty emperors to escape the city heat, is a popular tourist destination in the capital city.Andy Wong
/ The Associated Press

A family cruises at a park in Beijing, China.Wang Zhao
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A child walks on a shadow casted on the floor at a shopping mall in Beijing, China.Andy Wong
/ The Associated Press

A food vendor offers scorpions for sale at a temple fair at Longtan park in Beijing.Ed Jones
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A woman uses a mobile phone to take photos of autumnal leaves in Beijing, China. Autumn in Beijing typically ends in November as the city braces for dry, sub-zero temperatures.Ed Jones
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A monk makes his way through a hall with a kettle in his hand at the Yonghegong Lama temple in Beijing in Beijing. China's religious affairs ministry has lashed out at the rampant commercialisation of sacred places and temples in the country, including the practice of employing "fake monks" and fortune-tellers.Wang Zhao
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A woman holds an umbrella while walking on a carpet featuring athletic runway tracks outside a shopping mall in a rain in Beijing, China.Alexander F. Yuan
/ The Associated Press

A Chinese policeman blocks photos being taken outside Zhongnanhai which serves as the central headquarters for the Communist Party of China.Mark Ralston
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The Forbidden City (C) is seen through autumn leaves on a tree during sunset in Beijing. Autumn typically lasts from September to October in Beijing before the winter months when temperatures often fall below zero.Mark Ralston
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A bicyclist takes a break next to a billboard advertising luxury properties in Beijing, China.Liu Jin
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Tibetan Buddhist monks shop for goods in a store at an ethnic minority shopping plaza in Xining, in northwest China's Qinghai province, a vast region on the Tibetan plateau known as Amdo, on March 12, 2009. While not the case in the provincial capital of Xining, Tibetan areas of China have proved to be no-go zones for foreign media despite China's foreign ministry insisting that foreign reporters are allowed to visit these areas with Tibetan populations, while conveniently adding that local authorities have the final say, as many foreign journalists encountered severe problems while travelling through Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu in China's west and northwest this week for the sensitive 50th anniversary of a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. Qinghai became a province of the Repuplic of China in 1928, with a large swathe of the area, historically called Kokonor in English until the early 20th century, being a melting pot for centuries mixing Tibetan, Han Chinese, Mongol anf Turkic Muslim influences.Frederic J. Brown
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